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Hi,
I could be way off the mark here - but if you are running HBase on top
of Hadoop in the default configuration then it may be using /tmp for
HDFS. This gets wiped on reboot which would cause the problems you are
seeing.
-stephen
stack wrote:
> Shut it down cleanly (./bin/stop-hbase.sh). My guess is that you are
> killing it before it has chance to flush its in-memory state.
>
> HBase questions will get more timely response if posted to the hbase lists
> (see hbase.org).
>
> Yours,
> St.Ack St.Ack
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Something Something <luckyguy2050@yahoo.com
>> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I noticed that if I start HBase in "standalone" mode it creates a table in
>> memory. In other words, after rebooting the machine, the table goes away.
>> I would like to persist the table to a local file system. How can I do
>> that? Do I have to use "Psuedo Distribution" mode for this?
>>
>> Please help. Thanks.
>>
>>
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>
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